Comments | thistle_chaser: November 6: Nano Haiku (Soup, 2012)

thistle_chaser

November 6: Nano Haiku (Soup, 2012)

Nov 06, 2010 15:59

Cooking chicken soup ( Read more... )

cooking, nano (haiku version), movie: 2012

Comments 13

ani_mama November 6 2010, 23:51:19 UTC

Oh dear. Another failure with chicken soup? That is too bad.

I got 2012 at the bargain bin at Wally World a while back. The characters are all incredibly annoying, and the special effects were cool but just so over the top it was stupid. I am glad I did not pay full price to watch that in the movie theater.

thistle_chaser November 7 2010, 04:02:30 UTC

The whole movie was really over the top, but the characters especially. It's hard to enjoy a story when you don't like a single character!

firebyrd November 7 2010, 00:12:54 UTC

I'm kind of confused. Why do you try to wing things when it comes to making food? I think your continued failures are due to a lack of experience that you're not getting because rather than following recipes, you just throw things together. I think you'd be far more likely to have success by going to a site like recipezaar.com (Edit: Looks like they're now food.com, though the site seems to have the same sort of functionality), find a simple recipe with high reviews, and follow it. I have a lot more cooking experience than you and just throwing stuff together like you do often doesn't work for me and I have some idea of what spices and such work well together ( ... )

ani_mama November 7 2010, 03:24:42 UTC

Getting a recipe from a site with reviews is an excellent idea. It is hard to see what would work well among the gazillions of recipes online, especially if you are not familiar with cooking.

thistle_chaser November 7 2010, 04:01:10 UTC

I think I'll try that next weekend!

lokyst November 7 2010, 12:37:52 UTC

Some additional tips when doing this. Go for highly reviewed recipes with 30+ votes. Also while you're learning the ropes, choose recipes with "Simple" in the title ;)

I've had some luck with allrecipes.com as well.

Thread 6

veloxe November 7 2010, 03:57:04 UTC

I'm all fairness about changing the plan, the plan was also to have that other ark that got damaged and there was a bunch of people who were, basically, going to die because of it. So, it's like the original plan was so that something like that wouldn't have to happen. I give them a little slack on that ( ... )

thistle_chaser November 7 2010, 04:00:53 UTC

I don't think I've seen the second, let alone the third one... I'll have to!

Problem is, while the arks apparently had the space, what about other resources? Food, water, places for waste (did they have an opening to just toss it out of?), air?

People aren't generally that giving when it might cost their own lives to do so. :/

veloxe November 7 2010, 04:07:29 UTC

Well, I would imagine waste is either incinerated or just dumped into the ocean (honestly the world is fucking ending, I don't think being environmentally friendly is high on the list ( ... )

gconnor November 7 2010, 08:23:35 UTC

I wonder if you had actual stock or broth to start with? Broth is pretty much chicken-flavored water with some salt. Stock typically has a lot more of the connective tissues of the meat cooked in, like collagen and gelatin, that you usually only get from cooking meat with bones in it, for a long time. A stock is often heartier and will start to congeal if you put it in the fridge, like a slightly watery Jell-o ( ... )

thistle_chaser November 7 2010, 23:52:32 UTC

I wonder if you had actual stock or broth to start with?

It was stock (in a box, store-bought), but with as little flavor as the soup came out with, I'm betting that was a big part of the issue. Probably the brand wasn't a good one.

Thanks for the info! Sounds like you have a ton of experience with this!